Albert Frederick (1553-1618) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death. He was the second and last Prussian duke of the Ansbach branch of the Hohenzollern family. At his death the dukedom passed to the Hohenzollern rulers of Brandenburg, combining the two territories under a single dynasty. // Events June 26 - Christs Hospital in London gets a Royal Charter July 6 - Edward VI of England dies July 10 - Lady Jane Grey is proclaimed Queen of England - for the next nine days July 18 - Lord Mayor of London proclaims Queen Mary as the rightful Queen - Lady Jane Grey... Events March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery). ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and... Events March 23 - Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. ... See Ansbach, Austria for the Austrian town of the same name. ... Aerial view of the castle, Hohenzollern, Germany. ... Surrounding but excluding the national capital Berlin, Brandenburg is one of Germanys sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). ...